Portfolio Construction
Keep up with the latest news on key elements for successful portfolio construction including asset allocation, asset management options and investment strategies.
The Tilt of Beating the Market?
By Ben WarwickThe stock market is a long way from Lake Wobegon, Garrison Keillor's fictional Minnesota town where everyone is above average. In fact, when it comes...
March 14, 2006
Portfolios Buoy Life ProfitsInvestment earnings accounted for about 6% of U.S. life and health insurers' profits during the first 9 months of 2005, up from 2% during the ...
March 01, 2006
Allocation Without BordersWhen Ranji Nagaswami spoke at our Wealth Advisor Summit last December about an equities portfolio strategy that produces long-term outperformance along with reduced risk, we...
March 01, 2006
Acting Like He ThinksDuring recent years when large-cap growth funds were eschewed by many investors in favor of small- and mid-cap value, the $836 million Dreyfus Premier Alpha...
February 01, 2006
Down, Then Up, in 2006Economic growth will slow a bit; earnings growth will moderate; large-cap will outperform small cap, non-U.S. equities will outperform U.S. equities for the fifth year...
February 01, 2006
Risky BusinessIn the September 2005 Investment Advisor, we showed that characteristic (value-growth and market capitalization) constrained investing costs investors almost 300 basis points per year. Then,...
February 01, 2006
Silk PursesThe average mutual fund investor made money in 2005. Perhaps not as much as in 2004, but positive returns were the norm, nonetheless. On the...
January 17, 2006
Jackson National Expands VA OptionsJackson National Life Insurance Company is adding new variable annuity investment choices aimed at customers who want exposure to the stock market without the need ...